INSECTS. HEMIPTERA. 59. Mantis. 



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b-guttata, Winer-cafes green with 2 white fpots : abdomen with 3 

 white fpots each fide. 

 Inhabits the Cape. Aft. Suec. 1775. tab. j.fig. 3: 

 Large : antennae fhert green: head rough green, with 2 denti- 

 cles each fide under the antenna? : thorax green with a white 

 margin, and 2 denticles before, one in the margin, the other 

 before the middle j in the middle is a deep ridge. 



lamtts. 



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MANTIS. Head unfteady: mouth armed 

 with jaws: feelers filiform: wings 4, 

 membranaceous, convolute, the under 

 ones plaited: fore-legs comprefled, fer- 

 rate or toothed beneath, armed with a 

 fingle claw and lateral jointed proceft; 

 the 4 hind-ones fmooth and formed for 

 walking: thorax (moftly) linear, elon- 

 gated and narrow. 



ilifortms. g 0( ]y filiform, apterous, brown : legs longer than the body, 

 unarmed. 

 Inhabits South America. Ilerbfl. Arch. tab. 51.7%. 22. 

 Antennae black. ' 



erula* Body filiform, apterous, green : legs longer than the body; 

 hind-thighs fpinousat the tip. 

 Inhabits Guadeloupe: large long and filiform: 

 Antennae moderate, green tiptwith brown : body finooth glabrous, 

 without wing- cafes : thighs angular, the 4 hind-ones ipinous. 



Eody filiform, apterous, greenim : thighs ftriate. 

 Inhabits Santa Cruz, in America. 



Antennae yellowifh: head finooth yellowifh : body cylindrical: 

 legs yellowifh : thighs itriate with railed lines. 



Body filiform, apterous, green : thighs toothed. 

 Inhabits Italy. Rojf. Fn. Etr. 1. tab. $. 'Jig. 1. 

 Legs fhort, brown ; thighs toothed beneath. 



Apterous ; head and thorax fpincus : wing-cafes rounded, 

 very fhort : thighs angular beneath. 



Inhabits Guadeloupe. Mantis gigas. Drury. 2. tab. 50. 



Body chefnut-brown : head with 2 fpines and numerous raifed 

 dots : thorax with 2 fharp fpines on the anterior lobe and nu- 

 merous raifed dots, the fides ferrate •' wivg-cajts fhort rounded 

 reticulate: thigh very angular, the 4-hind ones Ipinous be- 

 neath. 



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